WordPress adds built-in social networking

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04 May 2009

There are lots of choices for building your own social network: Ning, SocialGo, KickApps and many others. A new one joins the fray with a twist: it adds the social network directly into your WordPress blog.

The add-on, which has been under development at WordPress for the last year, is called BuddyPress and it includes many (though not all) of the features you’d find on a Faceb

Brian Blum covers the U.S., Canada and Israel for Classified Intelligence Report, and contributes to our special reports and research projects. Originally from San Francisco and now based in Jerusalem, he has been with the AIM Group since 2004. He is the president of Blum Interactive Media, specializing in writing and multimedia content development for online, print, video and audio. His clients include newspapers, universities and non-profits. He is currently working on a book about the billion-dollar bankruptcy of a once high-flying Israeli startup.